Empowering Teachers

Overview#

Teachers may specialize in specific subjects or grade levels, and their ultimate goal is to help students acquire knowledge, develop critical thinking skills, and reach their full potential.

Responsibilities#

Teachers have a range of responsibilities that contribute to the holistic development and education of their students. These responsibilities can vary depending on the level of education, subject area, and the specific role of the teacher. Prompt engineering can be a useful skill for teachers to help in their role by providing plans and creative ideas to improve their productivity. Let's see how teachers can use prompt engineering to excel at their work.

Creating outlines#

Prompt engineering can help teachers to generate course and lesson outlines on a specific topic. Let's see some examples of how this can be done:

Planning for a course#

Planning courses can be challenging, especially when extensive content and material is available. It is often hard to narrow down the scope of the course. Teachers can use prompts to help define a scope for their course and create a basic outline inspired by existing courses.

Here's a sample prompt:

We can build on this example and provide more context and constraints to improve the response.

Planning for lessons#

Prompts can generate ideas that teachers can adapt to their lesson plans based on their experience and knowledge. It's important to prime the AI model according to the learning objectives. Then, we can instruct it to assume a role and create a lesson plan that utilizes these learning objectives. Let's build on the example from the course outline and prompt the model to create a lesson plan.

Here's a sample prompt:

As a result, the AI gives us a timed plan about how the teacher can conduct a lesson, what learning objectives the students will achieve, and what group activity the students can perform to grasp the topic.

Creating slides#

Additionally, teachers can use prompt engineering to generate content for the lecture slides to be presented to the students. Here's a sample prompt:

As a response, we get a general outline for the slides. The teacher can expand and edit them according to their needs.

Suggesting discussion topics#

Creating assessments#

Prompt engineering can be of great help to teachers in drafting assessment questions. It can help generate MCQs, fill in the blanks, and true/false questions given the context. Along with the questions, it can give the correct answers with explanations. It's an excellent way for teachers to help students understand concepts through retrieval practice. Here's an example of how we can use prompts to generate questions:

Teachers can create more creative assessments besides generic assessment questions. For example, at the university level, teachers may need project ideas that assess some course learning outcomes and give students creative freedom to express themselves. Here's an example of an elaborate prompt that can result in different project or assessment ideas:

Challenge: Learn by example#

Note: If you're stuck, you can click the "Show Solution" button to see an example prompt.

Try it yourself#

You can use the widget below to see the output for your prompt: